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The holidays are finally over.  I am somewhat mentally stable for the time being.  I'm almost finished with the commission project I have been working on this entire year.  I don't believe I have ever worked this much toward one specific goal. I didn't do this much work for my BA in school for corn sake!  I enjoyed every minute of it, though.  It made me realize that I can work on a big project and more or less complete it within a certain amount of time.  I hope to have a show up and running by the middle of January.  Then off to promote it to establishments! Personally, I think it couldn't have gone any better than it has. We shall see w

I have recently been having mental problems.  And it must be because the mind of an artist is very creative . . . this is a good and a bad thing.  I can dream up wonderful things, and at the same time think of the most horrible, terrible nightmares.  Scare myself into some kind of freakout! Going to school I've found that writers, musicians, artists, anyone with some type of creative persona . . . are more prone to mental instability.  I guess that is the curse we all must live with.  Maybe that's why alot of us are depressed, suicidal, angry . . . all of the crappy ass emotions that we dredge up along with the beauty, the creative joys. I

So, it seems I am in for another show around the beginning of next year to debut the "Gangster's Purgatory" series.  It has almost been a year that I have been working on this.  I'm excited and scared to finally be done.  Hopefully it will be well received. And with the proper funding, and Jeebus willing, I'll be able to start my own gallery in this little rinky dink town.  I figure if I'm stuck here for awhile, might as well make the best of it. And at least I'd be doing something I love . . . rather than something that just makes money!  Perhaps, I will be the cliched starving artist . . . but I need to lose a few pounds anyway. Always l